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G. D. STEVENS.

-Breastpin.

No. 221,594. 'Patnted may 11, I880.-

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GEORGE D. STEVENS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BREASTPIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,594, dated May 11,1880.

Application filed February 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. STEVENS, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful-Improvement in LadiesBreastpins, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 represents a rear view of a breastpin embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a top view thereof, partly in section. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section of the pin-point protector on an enlarged scale.Fig. 4 is a side view of the pin. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of theprotector.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to breastpins especially for ladies wear, and'itconsists in an ornamental head or button, a bent pin extending from theback of the head, a pin-point protector, and a chain, or the like,connecting the protector to the head, the whole combined to form a newarticle of manufacture.

A is, in this example, substantially flat-but it can obviously be madeof a variety of other shapes-and the pin B extends from the back of thehead, where it is secured by solder or other suitable means. Said pin Bis bent at. its junction with the head A, so that a space is leftbetween it and the head, as shown in Fig. 2, and the pin is moreoverbifurcated at that place in order to strengthen the joint.

- The protector O is connected to the head A by means of the chain D,which latter depends from the edge of the head, and is of sufficientlength to allow the protector to be readily put on and taken off thepin-point.

In all pins embodying a pinpoint protector now in use the pin proper isjoined to the edge of the ornamental head or button, and it becomesnecessary to use a chain of consida ball or other ornament having asingle aperture for placing the same on the pin-point.

The protector 0 consists of a tube which is open at both ends, the samebeing fitted to the pin, so that when it is taken hold of the protectormay at once he placed on the pinnamely, from either end, and without theadjustment necessary to accomplish that object in the old class ofprotectors.

In order to render the tube 0 elastic, and thus adapt the same to binditself on the pin B, it is split or cleft in a longitudinal direction,as at c, Fig. 5, a ring, f, being placed thereon, about midway betweenits two ends, to limit the expansion of the tube.

The pin B is provided with a transverse groove, 2, near its point forthe purpose of engaging and holding the point-protector, and in order toadapt the tube 0 to engage this groove the ends thereof are made toconverge, as at j j, Fig. 3, so that when the tube is moved up on thepin a sufficient distance one of the converging ends springs intothe'groove.

Articles of jewelry haxe heretofore been constructed with a pin havingan ornamental pin-head and carrying an attached chain, the free end ofwhich carries a short tube closed at one end, said tube serving as acovering or protector for the point of the pin. Such construction,broadly, is not my invention, and is therefore disclaimed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A breastpin in which arecombined an ornamental head, a pin, apin-point protector, consisting of a tube open at both ends and split togive it elasticity, and a chain, or the like, connecting the protectorto the head, substantially as described.

2. A breastpin in which are combined an ornamental head, a pin having atransverse pin, and a chain, or the like, connecting the the protectorto the head, substantially as de 10 protector to the head, substantiallyas described. scribed. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 3. Abreastpin in which are combined an have hereunto set my hand. and sealthis 2d ornamental 'head, a pin having a transverse day of February,1880.

groove near the point thereof, a pin-point pro- GEO. D. STEVENS. [L. 8.]tector, consisting of a split tube with convergl Witnesses:

ing ends adapted to catch in the groove of W. HAUFF,

the pin, and a chain, or the like, connecting l lJHAs. WAHLERS.

